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john boehner gave it his all. he tried as hard as he could, out there on the floor, grabbing members, putting his arm around them, trying to reason with them. he worked very hard to try to get this through. >> narrator: many of the conservative true believers were angry that plan b included a concession: raising taxes on millionaires. >> i got to tell you, i was very disappointed in some of my republican colleagues who didn't see the wisdom of moving in that direction. >> even guys like cantor and ryan can't bring along the most conservative members of the caucus. and that's how unruly the republican caucus is right now. >> narrator: boehner knew that plan b was in trouble. and just before the vote, he called an emergency meeting. >> so boehner calls a surprise conference meeting. all the members get a text message, "come to the basement of the capitol right now. at 7:30 at night, we're going have a meeting." >> narrator: every republican caucus meeting starts with a prayer. >> but usually boehner does not himself
john boehner gave it his all. he tried as hard as he could, out there on the floor, grabbing members, putting his arm around them, trying to reason with them. he worked very hard to try to get this through. >> narrator: many of the conservative true believers were angry that plan b included a concession: raising taxes on millionaires. >> i got to tell you, i was very disappointed in some of my republican colleagues who didn't see the wisdom of moving in that direction. >> even...
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boehner had the boehners, the family. boehner's first nidge his speech was about the ash wednesday ceremony of smearing ashes on the forehead. you come from ashes and to ashes you will return. that is a message for an age of austerity. his message is we're here temporarily and you heard the words humility almost every other sentence. gwen: modestty is the theme. >> yes. and you'll hear them say when 10% of the country is unemployed, everything has to be both modest and also focused on that. when they talked about repeeling health care they called it the job-killing health care bill. gwen: over and over. >> yes, the title of the legislation itself. the point there is if you're going to talk about anything it has to be in the jobs context. if you bring to it boehner he won't do it unless it's got that job connection. gwen: seldom do we see this much change on both ends of pennsylvania avenue in a single week as we did this week. we see the new chief of staff at the white house, bill daley, who has been to washington before
boehner had the boehners, the family. boehner's first nidge his speech was about the ash wednesday ceremony of smearing ashes on the forehead. you come from ashes and to ashes you will return. that is a message for an age of austerity. his message is we're here temporarily and you heard the words humility almost every other sentence. gwen: modestty is the theme. >> yes. and you'll hear them say when 10% of the country is unemployed, everything has to be both modest and also focused on...
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john boehner to then former use speaker newt @@gingrich, how well is boehner doing? i ask you, major garrettí >> this lots of ways to measure that. one is the polling data. gingri's he's negatives were always higher an his positives. john boehnes positives are yawl to his negatis so he's doing@better in the@polling with the american public. congress's approval rating though is lower now than it was in the@mid-90s. congress is held in much higher ntempt now than then. analysis. the inside coress analysis is that this stage of speaker gingrich speakehip he already had the contract of america through, to 10 high priority items sos he had more legislative victories than ehner does now. but that was e fective end of the gingrich speakership. boehner has taken a gradsistic approach, removing power from the speakership, giving it@more to the chairmen, allowing legislation to move through the house, that is giving him latitude to strike deals some boehner internally is stronger and is probably going@to remain s(nger as a eaker an gingrich was. >> do you think all@of at whic
john boehner to then former use speaker newt @@gingrich, how well is boehner doing? i ask you, major garrettí >> this lots of ways to measure that. one is the polling data. gingri's he's negatives were always higher an his positives. john boehnes positives are yawl to his negatis so he's doing@better in the@polling with the american public. congress's approval rating though is lower now than it was in the@mid-90s. congress is held in much higher ntempt now than then. analysis. the inside...
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boehner and mr. obama, were getting flak from their parties and yesterday we were sort of focused on the congressional democrats blowback to mr. obama because of concessions he was reportedly making on the entitlement programs, medicare, medicaid and social security, but today was speaker boehner's walkout from the talks. it's clear that he has gotten plenty of blowback from his side yet again like earlier in the month when he left the talks. his side is just not willing to raise revenues as part of the deal. >> now, you vote wrote yesterday that theres was a deal that was close and then everyone denied it. it seems to have fallen apart by tonight. were they ever close? the president says no and boehner says no. >> well, you know, the truism here, you heard it yourself, nothing is agreed to until everything is agreed to. it was always clear that both men were going to have to take this deal out and sell it. the thing is both men and speaker boehner know that this is something that there has to be an
boehner and mr. obama, were getting flak from their parties and yesterday we were sort of focused on the congressional democrats blowback to mr. obama because of concessions he was reportedly making on the entitlement programs, medicare, medicaid and social security, but today was speaker boehner's walkout from the talks. it's clear that he has gotten plenty of blowback from his side yet again like earlier in the month when he left the talks. his side is just not willing to raise revenues as...
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god bless you, speaker boehner. (cheers and applause) >> he is a career politician, ohioan, hardscrabble upbringing, arrived in 1990, was part of the gang that went after the democrats over the bank scandals, rose to power, became a deal maker. >> narrator: boehner had spent ten terms in congress, working his way up the leadership ladder. >> john boehner regards himself as an institutionalist, a guy who really loves, reveres even, the house of representatives. >> i didn't need to be speaker because i needed a fancy title, or a big office. i wanted to be speaker so i could lead an effort to deal with the serious issues that are facing our country. >> narrator: now boehner would have to deal with the insurgents who came to washington to take on the establishment he embodied. >> i don't think he knew what had fallen into his lap. i don't think he recognized that this was going to be such a hard ride. >> house republicans of the 112th congress plotted strategy. >> narrator: the week after they were sworn in, boehner and
god bless you, speaker boehner. (cheers and applause) >> he is a career politician, ohioan, hardscrabble upbringing, arrived in 1990, was part of the gang that went after the democrats over the bank scandals, rose to power, became a deal maker. >> narrator: boehner had spent ten terms in congress, working his way up the leadership ladder. >> john boehner regards himself as an institutionalist, a guy who really loves, reveres even, the house of representatives. >> i...
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reid and john boehner, -- harry reid and john boehner, they knew they were serious. that made it harder for republicans to say they're not serious at all. it then became about the specific kind of cults, which made it a less easy political position for republicans to paints the democrats as out of touch. >> having watched a bunch of these deal-making conferences over the last 15 years, i can tell you that the dealmakers have a way of getting separated from their caucuses. even though they can come out of days of frustrating negotiations and sometimes go back and not actually be able to sell what they have wrought, ambassador that's one of the downsides of this last-minute deadlines that both sides of playing. it doesn't leave you time to miss calculate. and these kinds of judgments you make, i'll take a 3-1 turn, a 5-1 on a rider, you're really playing a very high-stakes game. so we'll see if we can get these passed. gwen: all of us were covering washington in 1995, the time of the last big government shutdown and there are similarities here. it's natural for us to i
reid and john boehner, -- harry reid and john boehner, they knew they were serious. that made it harder for republicans to say they're not serious at all. it then became about the specific kind of cults, which made it a less easy political position for republicans to paints the democrats as out of touch. >> having watched a bunch of these deal-making conferences over the last 15 years, i can tell you that the dealmakers have a way of getting separated from their caucuses. even though they...
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>> he tried to demonize boehner. >> okay, boehner's yin side. >> we can celebrate when we have a government that has earned the trust of the people that it serves. when we have a government that honors the constitution and stands up for the values that have made america, america. [ applause ] things like economic freedom, individual liberty, and personal responsibility. listen, i hold these values dear because i've lived them. i've spent my whole life chasing the american dream. [ applause ] >> is boehner's emotional extra version helpful or hurtful? >> i think it was great. hillary was a hero for showing a human side. john boehner lived the american dream. he came from nothing. midwest guy, 11 brothers and sisters and he is rising to being third in line for the american presidency. that is quite a story. if that's his first impression to most of the american people, i think it was a very good one. here's where his power lies. this is why strategically for the republicans to control the house and not the senate is very important. because the republicans led by john boehner, they are going t
>> he tried to demonize boehner. >> okay, boehner's yin side. >> we can celebrate when we have a government that has earned the trust of the people that it serves. when we have a government that honors the constitution and stands up for the values that have made america, america. [ applause ] things like economic freedom, individual liberty, and personal responsibility. listen, i hold these values dear because i've lived them. i've spent my whole life chasing the american...
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so i think it's been happening at the level of leader reid, speaker boehner and now speaker boehner is planning to move it through the house with the support of his conference. >> ifill: we have heard today that the phones were jammed at the capitol with people in your constituents calling in. is that what you're hearing from your members as well? >> i think's a high level of expectation on the part of the american public that their leaders come together and solve two things: one is make sure the obligations are met and that we don't go into any sort of tail spin as a result of this. but as importantly, make sure that the debt ceiling isn't raised just willy-nilly with no pro-conditions. and i think if there's a thoughtful way forward-- and that, i would submit, is the boehner plan-- that accomplishes those two things i think most americans can get their heads around that and feel a high level of confidence. which is why i think it's interesting when you were interviewing the white house representative, he very carefully didn't they the president would veto the bill. and i think they o
so i think it's been happening at the level of leader reid, speaker boehner and now speaker boehner is planning to move it through the house with the support of his conference. >> ifill: we have heard today that the phones were jammed at the capitol with people in your constituents calling in. is that what you're hearing from your members as well? >> i think's a high level of expectation on the part of the american public that their leaders come together and solve two things: one is...
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and boehner says... >> rose: jock jack son is over for boehner. >> that's right. but this is a fascinating... highly unusual moment where they asked boehner well, how many votes for more additional revenue do you think you you'll be able to get? and boehner says about 170. the chief of staff says to the speaker of the house "you're crazy. you're crazy." and cantor backs him up and they think he would only get about 50 votes. >> rose: not 170. >> not 170. >> rose: so what does that say about the speaker of the house knowing where his members are? >> well, exactly. but then he did some soundings and wouldn't call the president back and then finally backed out of the deal. >> rose: as the president was trying to reach him? >> yes. >> rose: wouldn't call him back. >> wouldn't call him back for a day. again, unheard of. and the president was furious, confused. he had... he... as i report in there, the big dpra draa drama was he had no plan "b", no fallback position. so then the next day obama calls noepsz and reid, the democratic leaders down the white house to see wha
and boehner says... >> rose: jock jack son is over for boehner. >> that's right. but this is a fascinating... highly unusual moment where they asked boehner well, how many votes for more additional revenue do you think you you'll be able to get? and boehner says about 170. the chief of staff says to the speaker of the house "you're crazy. you're crazy." and cantor backs him up and they think he would only get about 50 votes. >> rose: not 170. >> not 170....
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so, mark, surprised about boehner? >> yes. but as lisa reported, too, from the hill, the speaker faced a vote of no confidence. he could have survived but it would have shown him weakened in his own caucus among the republican members. so i think he brought the decision on his own terms. >> woodruff: david, a complete shock for you? >> no, saw it coming months and months and months ago... (laughter) no, obviously since the day he walked in the door, he's had this challenge andeth grown evening more, but i don't think anybody saw it coming in this way. there is a beautiful piece from robert costa in "the washington post" talking about the night before costa was with him on the balcony and boehner said the pope stood right here and he asked me to pray for him and he was so moved so there was a mood of uplift and might as well do the right thing. paul ryan called it a selfless act and i think it is. it spares us from a potential government shutdown, helps the institution, helps the party from the fall south of a government shutdo
so, mark, surprised about boehner? >> yes. but as lisa reported, too, from the hill, the speaker faced a vote of no confidence. he could have survived but it would have shown him weakened in his own caucus among the republican members. so i think he brought the decision on his own terms. >> woodruff: david, a complete shock for you? >> no, saw it coming months and months and months ago... (laughter) no, obviously since the day he walked in the door, he's had this challenge...
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>> it was a huge problem for boehner. as he was trying to gavel down the 112th congress and let it die a lot of new jersey and new york republicans and democrats expected they were going to get a vote on the hurricane sande aid and they were shouting as he was gaveevpling it down, wait, wait, we need our vote. you didn't play it there but chrissie named boehner and said it was his fault. boehner is caught between new jersey republicans who want this spending and a conservative base that doesn't want to see any more spending. they want to see if it happens, it should be offset with other cuts and they were trying to give the anti-spending folks something to hang their hats on. very, very tough situation. >> and that's what boehner is up against. he couldn't get that bill -- fit that bill with the money for hurricane aid no matter how angry chris christy got. >> they did pass something today and are going to do a bizarre two-step process january 18 with sandy aid and then an amendment that is even bigger than the bill itsel
>> it was a huge problem for boehner. as he was trying to gavel down the 112th congress and let it die a lot of new jersey and new york republicans and democrats expected they were going to get a vote on the hurricane sande aid and they were shouting as he was gaveevpling it down, wait, wait, we need our vote. you didn't play it there but chrissie named boehner and said it was his fault. boehner is caught between new jersey republicans who want this spending and a conservative base that...
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boehner put it quite succinctly. he said the president was angry, and so angry and so hot, he was spewing coals. >> narrator: outraged, obama immediately called his own press conference. >> good evening, everybody. i just got a call about a half hour ago from speaker boehner. it is hard to understand why speaker boehner would walk away from this kind of deal, and frankly, i think that one of the questions the republican party is going to have to ask itself is, can they say yes to anything. can they say yes to anything? >> tensions were unbelievably high. you know, this is now one week from d-day. >> narrator: then it was boehner's turn. >> now let me just say that dealing with the white house is like dealing with a bowl of jell-o. they refuse to get serious about cutting spending and making the tough choices that are facing our country on entitlement reform. that's the bottom line. >> we're heading into the weekend with the best opportunity for preventing economic cataclysm on a global level from occurring... is now
boehner put it quite succinctly. he said the president was angry, and so angry and so hot, he was spewing coals. >> narrator: outraged, obama immediately called his own press conference. >> good evening, everybody. i just got a call about a half hour ago from speaker boehner. it is hard to understand why speaker boehner would walk away from this kind of deal, and frankly, i think that one of the questions the republican party is going to have to ask itself is, can they say yes to...
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house speaker john boehner steps down. what does his departure mean for a potential government shutdown? wall street uncertainty and even interest rates. >>> the hack stops here. china and the u.s. agree not to commit cyber thefts against each other, but president obama wants action more than words. >>> and clearing the air. volkswagen announces a corporate overhaul while here government regulators tighten testing standards in the wake of the automaker's emissions scandal. all that and more tonight on "nightly business report" for friday september 25th. >>> good evening, everyone, and welcome. bombshell news on capitol hill today. speaker of the house john boehner announcing his resignation just days ahead of a potential government shutdown at the end of september. so what does it all mean? eamon javers takes a look at the implications. >> this morning i woke up and i said my prayers, as i always do, and i decided, you know, today's the day i'm going to do this. >> reporter: the announcement caught republicans on capitol h
house speaker john boehner steps down. what does his departure mean for a potential government shutdown? wall street uncertainty and even interest rates. >>> the hack stops here. china and the u.s. agree not to commit cyber thefts against each other, but president obama wants action more than words. >>> and clearing the air. volkswagen announces a corporate overhaul while here government regulators tighten testing standards in the wake of the automaker's emissions scandal. all...
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house speaker john boehner steps down. what does his departure mean for a potential government shutdown? wall street uncertainty and even interest rates. >>> the hack stops here. china and the u.s. agree not to commit cyber thefts against each other, but president obama wants action more than words. >>> and clearing the air. volkswagen announces a corporate overhaul while here government regulators tighten testing standards in the wakef
house speaker john boehner steps down. what does his departure mean for a potential government shutdown? wall street uncertainty and even interest rates. >>> the hack stops here. china and the u.s. agree not to commit cyber thefts against each other, but president obama wants action more than words. >>> and clearing the air. volkswagen announces a corporate overhaul while here government regulators tighten testing standards in the wakef
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boehner's republican colleagues voted to give him the top job today-- boehner's 61st birthday. the next speaker is a pragmatist who has strong support from business. but as darren gersh reports, boehner's most important work may take place behind the scenes. >> reporter: almost four years ago, it was john boehner's job to give the speaker's gavel to nancy pelosi. in a few months, he will get it back. when he does, political economist andy laperriere expects the new speaker to make his mark as a consensus builder. >> you're going to have tea party republicans who are going to want to take an aggressive posture, they're going to want to do things that are controversial. then you're going to have other republicans who aren't going to want to go that far. i think it's going to be difficult for anybody to manage the internal dynamics of the republican caucus, and i think boehner is pretty well suited to do that. and without that kind of management ability, you could have a civil war among house republicans over the next two years. >> reporter: boehner's views on business are conside
boehner's republican colleagues voted to give him the top job today-- boehner's 61st birthday. the next speaker is a pragmatist who has strong support from business. but as darren gersh reports, boehner's most important work may take place behind the scenes. >> reporter: almost four years ago, it was john boehner's job to give the speaker's gavel to nancy pelosi. in a few months, he will get it back. when he does, political economist andy laperriere expects the new speaker to make his...
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john boehner felt that crush of pressure. ever since he became the speaker, when they won the majority, he had members pressing him to confront obama, confront the democrats, pull off things that were beyond the power of the republican majority in the house to do. the new version of that fight came in the question of do we shut the government? can -- can we depfund planned parenthood? can we raise the debt limit? abandon the -- and the dissidents were pressing on john boehner, looking at him as somebody that was potentially going to sell them out again and so he stepped aside, as we heard in that clip, for the gven the institution he would step aside. now it's only foshort time. they still have to resolve the disconnect between what those members want and what is possible to achieve. gwen: dejump or was he pushed? is it a disteervingtion without a difference? -- distinction without a difference? and can that party govern? >> it's a basic question. you look back at 2010 when they had a big victory after lowsing -- losing in 20
john boehner felt that crush of pressure. ever since he became the speaker, when they won the majority, he had members pressing him to confront obama, confront the democrats, pull off things that were beyond the power of the republican majority in the house to do. the new version of that fight came in the question of do we shut the government? can -- can we depfund planned parenthood? can we raise the debt limit? abandon the -- and the dissidents were pressing on john boehner, looking at him as...
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the boehner plan achieves a lot of the republican goals. it has no taxes, all cuts, and it establishes a principle of cutting spending if you want to raise the debt ceiling. you have achieved that. there is no way you can achieve more, holding only one house of the congress. take it because otherwise the republican chances in 2012 will be deeply damaged, and that is the only way next year's election in which republicans can change the structure and the ideological trajectory of the country. >> media folks for the past few days have spent a lot of time on boehner's problems with house members who refused to budge, but an unnamed operative is quoted as saying that ever offered a four liberals is a loss at this point. we may win on the politics, but the policy battle is lost. do you agree? >> yes. the move has been totally to the republican position on taxes. the fact that we have a better plan -- boehner plan that is the centerpiece of deficit reduction that continues to tax a firefighter in new york and emergency nurse at twice the rate as a
the boehner plan achieves a lot of the republican goals. it has no taxes, all cuts, and it establishes a principle of cutting spending if you want to raise the debt ceiling. you have achieved that. there is no way you can achieve more, holding only one house of the congress. take it because otherwise the republican chances in 2012 will be deeply damaged, and that is the only way next year's election in which republicans can change the structure and the ideological trajectory of the country....
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so, does boehner have the 216? >> just a short while ago i got offer with a top aide in his office, and he asures me that they do have the votes after they rejigered this plan. speaker boehner made the plan more attractive to conservatives by adding in the balanced budget amendment. >> caved, what happened last night? were there enough republicans who gave a commitment to boehner and then chk changed their mind or did he just never have the vote in the first place and he misread it? >> i'm told nobody changed their mind or promised the speaker their vote and did not deliver for him. my sense of what happened after talking to a lot of people on the hill today, judy, is the republican leadership team was trying a bit of bravado. some of these tea party freshmen started to understand the speakerer's argument on this, on why they needed to pass something and i think they started getting a little bit ahead of themselves thinking they had the votes. as they got near the wire, they realized they did not have the votes. an
so, does boehner have the 216? >> just a short while ago i got offer with a top aide in his office, and he asures me that they do have the votes after they rejigered this plan. speaker boehner made the plan more attractive to conservatives by adding in the balanced budget amendment. >> caved, what happened last night? were there enough republicans who gave a commitment to boehner and then chk changed their mind or did he just never have the vote in the first place and he misread it?...
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boehner is. secondly the mosque issue and the issue of the burning korans was a tremendous distraction all week. third, his proposal, some of which are interesting, credits like that. they are too little, they are too late. frankly some of his rhetoric, they treat me like a dog is getting pity me, it doesn't come off well. >> what is the political part on obama's part? >> you have to put a face on the opposition and mr. boehner is a pretty good face. he has been in the congress since 1990. he was part of the gingrich revolution in 1995. he was video taped on the house floor handing out checks from the tobacco industry to members while they were discussing ending tobacco subsidies. he advocated in cleveland a few days before the president made this speech. he is advocating a return to 2008 spending levels and to the bush tax cuts. so what is different between what john boehner who would be the speaker if the republicans gain power and what george w. bush represented. so the president is trying to
boehner is. secondly the mosque issue and the issue of the burning korans was a tremendous distraction all week. third, his proposal, some of which are interesting, credits like that. they are too little, they are too late. frankly some of his rhetoric, they treat me like a dog is getting pity me, it doesn't come off well. >> what is the political part on obama's part? >> you have to put a face on the opposition and mr. boehner is a pretty good face. he has been in the congress...
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john boehner has been a very interesting figure in all of this. at one point he was walking in the back door of the white house and trying to cut a deal with the president. obviously, shamed out of that. so now he came up with his own deal and spent a lot of time last night bringing people in through his front door, recalcitrant republicans, to get them on board. is he wounded by what happened this week? is he strengthened? >> i think what happened this week is that we have seen how little leverage and how weak john boehner really is. you know, he has a leadership style that he has said, you know, after the top-down leadership style we saw with nancy pelosi, that he wanted to be a consensus leader, that things would come from the bottom up and he won his majority in the house because a lot of these freshmen ran specifically against the establishment and against deals and against the kinds of things that have been sort of the lubricant of washington. so he started out with a very weak hand and i think what we saw this week was how weak it was. gwen
john boehner has been a very interesting figure in all of this. at one point he was walking in the back door of the white house and trying to cut a deal with the president. obviously, shamed out of that. so now he came up with his own deal and spent a lot of time last night bringing people in through his front door, recalcitrant republicans, to get them on board. is he wounded by what happened this week? is he strengthened? >> i think what happened this week is that we have seen how...
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john boehner struck the perfect tone. >> boehner-led house, what will look like, charles? >> as humble as he said. i think he overdid the humility a little bit. he said "dust-to-dust." it is not the kind of thing you introduce into an inaugural address after a landslide, but i guess he was airing on the side of humility. the they are going to tread carefully on anything large grid they will play small ball for quite a while. >> nina, what you think? >> i will not say anything you of not read in a lot of analyses. the tea party balancing -- them will be extremely difficult. i don't think you can play small ball with the national debt. >> evan, give us a sense of the house of representatives with the john boehner and the speaker's chair. >> the basic republican fantasy is that you can cut taxes and wall off social security and medicare from cutting spending and actually reduce government spending. that is complete fiction. the democrats in dollars in bad -- the democrats indulge in that i hope the press pointed out again and again. >> he has eric cantor as majority leader an
john boehner struck the perfect tone. >> boehner-led house, what will look like, charles? >> as humble as he said. i think he overdid the humility a little bit. he said "dust-to-dust." it is not the kind of thing you introduce into an inaugural address after a landslide, but i guess he was airing on the side of humility. the they are going to tread carefully on anything large grid they will play small ball for quite a while. >> nina, what you think? >> i will...
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figure johnc boehner is becoming. coming in as the son of the barkeep who swept the floor and with 11 brothers and sisters. he wept at the time and he must be weeping now. to go outstion is if with a blaze of glory, i am going to give it my speakership but we are going to move past this impasse and it must be attractive to him. it is not like the job is that great. you're hanging onto a job where are subject to ritual humiliation. >> this is his moment. >> the rollout of obamacare. competition, more and more prices. most uninsured americans will get covered for $100 or less. >> in terms of news coverage the shutdown overshadowed the very thing house republicans are trying to reverse, the affordable care act, obamacare. there were glitches as kathleen sebelius says. we did not talk about that because we had this other thing, this huge elephant appear. up here. >> fox talks about this a lot. part of the pie. were really overwhelmed. if you go back and look at massachusetts what happened when they did this, they had abou
figure johnc boehner is becoming. coming in as the son of the barkeep who swept the floor and with 11 brothers and sisters. he wept at the time and he must be weeping now. to go outstion is if with a blaze of glory, i am going to give it my speakership but we are going to move past this impasse and it must be attractive to him. it is not like the job is that great. you're hanging onto a job where are subject to ritual humiliation. >> this is his moment. >> the rollout of obamacare....
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speaker boehner's plans are nonstarters in the senate. >> boehner appeared friday morning and said, if this thing were easy, it would have been done decades ago. >> i am interested in solving the major problems that face our country. that means house leaders, senate leaders, and the president, are going to have to continue to work together to address those concerns. >> the president lifted his number to 400,000, no tax hikes for anyone making less than that, boehner says the million, still no deal. what happened out there? >> he did not have the votes, simple as that. he had to pull back. his own caucus let him down. he thought he could get the 218 votes he needed on of his caucus and they were not there. >> are we going over the cliff? >> i think there is still a chance we can avert that. boehner's statement on friday morning get that he was still willing to work with the president to come up with something. the outcome has to be that the fringes on both parties need to be forgotten and they need to have to pull in and of republicans of a moderate nature and the majority of democrats
speaker boehner's plans are nonstarters in the senate. >> boehner appeared friday morning and said, if this thing were easy, it would have been done decades ago. >> i am interested in solving the major problems that face our country. that means house leaders, senate leaders, and the president, are going to have to continue to work together to address those concerns. >> the president lifted his number to 400,000, no tax hikes for anyone making less than that, boehner says the...
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gwen: john boehner talked about it a little bit today. let's listen. >> i don't want to preclude any chance of coming to an agreement, but they've been unwilling to put a real plan on the table and without serious spending cuts, without real reform of our entitlement programs, this problem is not going to be solved. gwen: then the president also spoke about means testing as well. >> we've said that we are willing to look at all those approaches. i've laid out some criteria in terms of what would be acceptable. you can envision a situation where, for somebody in my position, me having to pay a little bit more on premiums or co-pays or things like that would be appropriate. gwen: that sound you hear is democrats screaming, liberals screaming but it sounded like they were in agreement. >> this is where they were last saturday. this whole notion of the president has to put a plan out there. look at what happened to john boehner when he hinted about a possible tax bill with the president. he got killed by his party. the president was offering
gwen: john boehner talked about it a little bit today. let's listen. >> i don't want to preclude any chance of coming to an agreement, but they've been unwilling to put a real plan on the table and without serious spending cuts, without real reform of our entitlement programs, this problem is not going to be solved. gwen: then the president also spoke about means testing as well. >> we've said that we are willing to look at all those approaches. i've laid out some criteria in terms...
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what was not expected was drawn boehner -- john boehner saying the truth, that you have too many people in the room. it's hard to have a serious discussion because as soon as one person raises a point, it gets a jump on and talked to death. and then they i have a couple more seconds? -- >> may i have a couple more seconds? let me try. boehner and the president really had reached some understanding. they were going to go for the big deal. it was boehner, unfortunately, who could not get past his own caucus, could not get past his own majority leader, who was playing to the base. they have people in the house of representatives who do not believe anything will happen if the debt ceiling is increased. that is the yahoo mentality, and they are dealing with it. by my colleague is trying to make a point about how you have a completed, compliant, growth accepting every leak out of the white house here we have been told that the president is prepared to make cuts in entitlements. name me one. >> jobs. a completed, compliant, supine press. i love that. >> i've got other additives, but we are sho
what was not expected was drawn boehner -- john boehner saying the truth, that you have too many people in the room. it's hard to have a serious discussion because as soon as one person raises a point, it gets a jump on and talked to death. and then they i have a couple more seconds? -- >> may i have a couple more seconds? let me try. boehner and the president really had reached some understanding. they were going to go for the big deal. it was boehner, unfortunately, who could not get...
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today's the day john boehner starts. the annual republican retreat will begin discussion on those principles that becky's written. they balance strong enforcement with new legal visas, but they also hold out hope for the undocumented that they can become right with the law. >> yup, lotta tweets. boehner on gop conference on immigration: "these standards are as far as we are willing to go," which since they're so vague means absolutely nothing. the evangelicals are happy. "the house gop leaders' immigration plan doesn't rule out citizenship," but gee, you would think that that would be kinda obvious, but it's not. tamar jacoby called the principles "a historic breakthrough and a game changer." steny hoyer, number two man in the house: "house democrats are ready to do our part and work across the aisle." you know, look, it's tough. people are getting screwed. you know, some day they'll be passing congressional resolutions apologizing to how many immigrant families have been ripped apart by the awful stuff we've done in the
today's the day john boehner starts. the annual republican retreat will begin discussion on those principles that becky's written. they balance strong enforcement with new legal visas, but they also hold out hope for the undocumented that they can become right with the law. >> yup, lotta tweets. boehner on gop conference on immigration: "these standards are as far as we are willing to go," which since they're so vague means absolutely nothing. the evangelicals are happy....
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on the broader question of who won and who lost, boehner wins in this or boehner lose this is because he got his party to recognize that it was going down into a very bad place that might cause a huge division that they may not recover from not only by 2014 but by 2016. >> just emphasize this is one battle and a big war. this is not the ultimate victory. i think boehner himself won, the that he actually got his caucus to a place but i think the republican party are still the big losers here in terms of having been perceived to have created this in the first place. >> rose: subpoena the president the win, jonathan, or he simply did not views in >> he survived but he got mix on him, too, charlie. no question that his numbers have taken a hit with this on the heels of what happened with syria and you had a rollout of the affordable care out that has not been a good couple months if for president. i think steve is right in the sense that boehner probably staved off a coup. if boehner had brought up some kind of a clean bill to keep the government open i think he would have faced an insurr
on the broader question of who won and who lost, boehner wins in this or boehner lose this is because he got his party to recognize that it was going down into a very bad place that might cause a huge division that they may not recover from not only by 2014 but by 2016. >> just emphasize this is one battle and a big war. this is not the ultimate victory. i think boehner himself won, the that he actually got his caucus to a place but i think the republican party are still the big losers...
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boehner knows this. and he's trying to manage a very unruly caucus and so he goes kind of halfway by suing the president. and he focuses on executive orders related to health care. but it hasn't done much to calm his ranks. and i think the president has been able to use this to his political advantage and you look at the millions democrats have been able to raise since this lawsuit happene it's a potent thing ahead of the mid terms for them. >> i think what's really interesting here is one day that are talking about suing the president. the next day republicans are saying, oh, there are things that the president can do in executive order. which is why they're suing him in the first place. on the immigration issue. so i'm not really clear whether the divisions within the republicans themselves are more important at this point or larger than the divisions that they have with the white house. the democrats. >> and there was a lot of mockery of the mouse republicans for that being their response. after the c
boehner knows this. and he's trying to manage a very unruly caucus and so he goes kind of halfway by suing the president. and he focuses on executive orders related to health care. but it hasn't done much to calm his ranks. and i think the president has been able to use this to his political advantage and you look at the millions democrats have been able to raise since this lawsuit happene it's a potent thing ahead of the mid terms for them. >> i think what's really interesting here is...